a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person
"`The president is George W. Bush, Who is happy to sit on his tush, While sending his armies to fight, For anything he thinks is right' is a clerihew"
A humorous rhyme of four lines with the rhyming scheme AABB, usually regarding a person mentioned in the first line.
Alternative letter-case form of clerihew.